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PFT Live with Mike Florio

49ers win SNF thriller over Bears + Steelers squander division title with loss to Browns (12/29 Hour 1)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hour 1: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including 49ers taking down Bears in SNF classic, breaking down performances from Brock Purdy and Caleb Williams, and Browns spoiling Steelers’ chance to clinch AFC North.

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0:00.0

Coming up today on PFT Live, another Sunday night football classic as the 49ers hold the keys to home field advantage in the NFC. The Steelers can't close out the AFC North after losing the Browns and the NFC South is there for the taking. Does anybody want it? PFT Live starts right after this. Four seconds left. Second in goal. Here is Williams. He's got to throw into the end zone.

0:21.9

Clock has expired.

0:23.1

Williams keeps the play alive.

0:24.5

He's looking.

0:25.4

He's got to get rid of it.

0:26.7

Retreating, he throws incomplete.

0:29.0

It's over.

0:30.8

And the Niners have won.

0:45.5

Clock. Clock finally strikes midnight on these bears.

0:51.8

Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers win here next Sunday against Seattle.

0:56.1

And the road to the Super Bowl and the NFC comes through the place where they'll play the Super Bowl.

1:04.2

That was the moment where the final game of week 17 to the 2025 season was resolved.

1:08.8

And three thoughts were going through my mind during that last play. Did you say the final game of the 2025 season? Of week 17. Oh, okay. Got you. Got you. Okay. Clean your ears there, boss. Okay. I mean, I walk in the studio and he calls me Antonio Brown because I'm going back to the thermostat to make it colder.

1:28.2

And then he says, it is hot in here. God. But no, I was saying it too because I didn't know if you were like last game of 2025, right? Well, technically it is. That technically was. And that I wasn't sure what you said. I said week 17. Okay. Check the tape. Strike that from the tape. All right. Can we start over again?

1:44.5

I was thinking of multiple things there.

1:46.8

We had seen Brock Purdy make a crazy play rolling out to the left like that earlier in the game.

1:52.3

We have seen Caleb Williams do some incredible things, including the 47-yard piss missile to Colston Loveland in the first half.

2:00.8

The entire play is that was unfolding,

2:02.6

I'm thinking, he's going to throw a touchdown pass. They're going to win this game. As he's running around, it's like, they're going to win this game. And I was stunned when the pass was short of the mark. I mean, I as well. First off, I mean, maybe the most fun game to watch of the year, certainly in their running, right? I mean, that was just back and forth, unbelievable, right?

2:19.4

What's on the year, certainly in the running, right? I mean, that was just back and forth, unbelievable, right?

2:19.4

What's on the line?

2:20.8

Everything that was at stake, I think, added to it. You watch Brock Purdy, right? And that offense, which just seemed surgical and kind of did whatever it wanted. And then it was big play, Caleb Williams and all these unreal plays he made with the receivers and the young

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